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> I think gutting 80% of your workforce and showing that Twitter will continue running as a site is a pretty incredible POC. Twitter may have had some bloat, b
by _djo_ 4y ago
> I think gutting 80% of your workforce and showing that Twitter will continue running as a site is a pretty incredible POC.
Twitter may have had some bloat, but it also had excellent SREs and solid reliability engineering. Nobody who knew about that expected it to collapse overnight.
But serious failures will happen, as the graceful degradation turns into not-so-graceful outages, new features break things in unexpected ways, and the remaining infra staff burn out. It’s just a matter of time.
- bko 4y agoI'd love to hear some predictions or metrics to look out for in the next few months/years. Tech valuations and free money have been frothy for so long, no one bothered asking what is actually needed to run a service at a meaningful scale, but we may have the answer soon. I'm reminded of corporate raider Carl Ichan firing 12 floors at of people after spending some time and not being able to figure out what they do. The company was ACM (manufacturing railcars), about 30 years ago. Turns out those 12 floors of people were actually costing jobs in other place just to support them. Well he fired all 12 floors and nothing changed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSatPoD2W-o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSatPoD2W-o